I went to Deluxe 7 years ago on a first date with a girl. That girl has since become my wife. This bums me out. Well, good luck and God bless on your future endeavours!

And this from theglobalguy:

Sad to see Juanitas go...loved hanging out there when the doors were open. Definitely a bummer to have another empty spot on the strip for a while...between El Diablo, Deluxe/Juanitas and Crimson Canary, there are quite a few blank spots that need to be filled. Glad to see at least two of the three have plans.

The fate of the First Avenue Hotel, which held both El Diablo and Sketch, is the big unknown. What would you like to see go there? What do you think of the changes on Broadway?

Patricia Calhoun co-founded Westword, Denver’s News and Arts weekly, in 1977; she’s been the editor there ever since. She’s a regular on the weekly Colorado Public Television roundtable Colorado Inside Out, the former president of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies -- a post that got her an unexpected interview with former President Bill Clinton in front of a thousand people (while she was in flip-flops) -- and played a real journalist in John Sayles’s Silver City.